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J. & W. J. RATHGEBER.

CURTAIN FIXTURE.

No. 364,670. Patented June 14, 1887.

WITNESSES: llVl/E/VTQR U W 7 I 26M wags" ATTORNEY N. PETERS. Pinata-Lithographer. Washingion. 0.6.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN RATHGEBER AND WILLIAM J. RATHGEBER, or NEW HAVEN, con- NEQTIOUT.

CURTAIN-FIXTURE;.'

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent; No. 364,670, dated June 14, 1887. Application filed October 16, 1886. Serial No. 216,457. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be itknown that we, JOHN RATHGEBER and WILLIAM J. RATHGEBER, citizens of the United States, and residing in the town of New Haven and State of Connecticut-,havein- Vented new and useful Improvements in Ourtain-Fixtures, of which the following is a specification.

Our invention has for its object to provide an improved device for operating windowshades to admit light and air at the upper portions of windows; and the improvement consists in the novel construction of the parts of the shadefixtures, as hereinafter more fully described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is afront elevation of a window and shade embodying our improvements, and Fig.2 is a side elevation of the same. Fig. 3 is a plan view of a part of the shadefixture. Fig. 4 shows the mode of securing the guide-rods and the base of the receivingsock et. Fig. 5 is aview of one of the sliding guides, and Fig. 6 shows a roll-bracket.

Referring to the accompanying drawings,A designates the window-shade wound upon an ordinary horizontal roll, a,which is supported in the usual brackets, b b, of any well-known type. The brackets are supported upon guides c, of the form shown in Fig. 5, which consist of a single piece or casting having a vertical perforation or bearing, (2, a lateral flange, f, to which the bracket b is secur'ed,and an arm, 9, on the side opposite to the flange. The upper part of the arm has a horizontal socket, 2', in which the end of a cross-bar, k, is driven and firmly secured, whereby the guides are joined to form a supporting hanger or fixture for the shade. The brackets are fastened to the flange f by screws, which pass through both flanges and are secured with nuts at the back. A slot, Z, is formed in one end of the flangef,

for the reception of one of the bolts to provide for the adjustment of shade-brackets of different sizes, and having holes at different distances apart.

' Upon each side of the window-jamb R is arranged a straight vertical rod, t, with its ends received in suitable steps or sockets, n,

which are fastened to the jamb by screws. The base of the holding-screws may, if desired, pass through horizontal-slots x in the base of the sockets, so that the sockets maybe adjusted somewhat laterally to conform to different lengths of curtain-fixtures. The guides c are loosely fitted on the rods t, which are ontered thronghthe perforation d,and the hanger is thus adapted to slide or travel up and down along the rods.

The hanger,with its shade,is supported bya cord, 8, attached to the cross-bar k at its center or balancing-point. The cord passes over a pulley, m, which is placed vertically over the center of the cross-bar onthe top or horizontal part of the j amb, and over a similar pulley, at, at one end of the same horizontal part of the jalnb. From this second pulley the cord hangs vertically downward along the side jamb, and is held stationary by being slipped into a suitable spring-clamp, e, fastened on the jamb. Instead of asingle cord apair of cords may be used, one-attached at each end of the cross-bar or to the guide 0, and respectively passing over separate pulleys vertically over the points of support, and both passing over the pulley m, thus forming practically one cord. It is evident that instead of cords,suitable chains may be also used to suspend the fixtures.

Thus constructed and arranged, the shade and hanger may be raised and lowered by the cord,and placed and held in any desired position along the window.

It is essential either that the cord should be tied to the cross-bar exactly at the balancingpoint of the bar or employ two cords, as described, in order to suspend the fixture in equilibrium and prevent the guides from cramping on the rods t. This device allows the shade to be lowered at the top to admit light or for ventilating purposes, is easily operated, is not cumbersome, and is of neat and ornamental design.

\Ve claim as new,aud desire to secure by Let tcrs Patent- 1. In a device for operating window-shades, the guides 0, each provided with a vertical perforation or bearing which fits the guide rod, a lateral flange, f, having a perforation g, the brackets b, mounted upon the guides c, and a vertical slot, Z, by means of which difthe window-shade and its roll supported at its ferent sizes of shade-brackets may be fastened ends in the brackets, the pulleys m m, and thereto, and an arm,g, for holding the cross-bar the opcratingcord s, for raising and lowering I 5 of the sliding hanger, substantially as (10- the fixture, all combined substantially in the scribed. manner and for the purpose described.

2. In a device for operating window shades, JOHN RATHGEBER. the combination of the guide-rod t, the guides \V M. J. RATHGEBER. 0, each fitted upon the guiderod, and having the lateral flanges f and perforated arm 7, a crossbar, k, with its ends secured in the arms Witnesses:

JULIUs Turss, FRANK R. RUssELL. 

